Slow Week! An introduction
Those who have followed Allegra’s adventures from its creation in 2013 will probably remember that our initial motto was “Slow […]
Magic little gecko, won’t you become a doctor?
Yesterday I took my two children, aged 4 and 7, to the doctor. Both had been ill for the past
‘From Tweet to Blog to Article’ – New Publishing Trends REDUX!
We had been seeing much excitement in the social media around the post authored by Jessie Daniels titled ‘From Tweet
From Crisis to the University of Utopia
We conclude this dark thematic week on University Crisis with our insistence to be also ‘tongue in cheek’. We remind
“We cannot give up hope” – A conversation with Gish Amit on his book #Palestine
Gish Amit is a historian who has been involved in non formal education for twenty years. He taught cinema and
The Road to Oslo and Its Reverse
“If we fail to defend our cause, then we should change the defenders, not the cause.” (Ghassan Kanafani) Oslo has
Crisis on the opposite shore – Notes from the field on crisis, revolution, and the possible
This piece is a from-the-field reflection on the ways in which grand events and processes such as global financial crises
Aftertaste: memories of postsocialism
Allegra’s thematic thread on #postsocialism is coming to its end. We hope that the eight delicious specialties Allegra served you
Searching for (post-)Soviet taste
This project was inspired by a curiosity in whether people from the former Soviet states, more than two decades after
Facades and Facelesness
“We will continuously say how rooted we are in this county like a plane tree embracing the soil with its